Ovidiu Florin Caltun
Faculty of Physics, “A.I.Cuza” University,
11 Blvd Carol I, 6600 Iasi, Romania
Liliana Ciascai
Faculty of Science
Education, “Babes Bolyai” University, 1B Mihail Kogalniceanu
Str., 3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania |

GIREP Seminar
2003
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Teacher training in subject matter didactics has undergone various and
hesitating reorganization over the past ten years. This refers to
both the total number of hours and the way hours have been distributed
between course and seminar. Thus, in initial training the number
of hours allocated to course has dropped to half of the initial total
number and the ratio course / seminar has been reversed almost every
year. In 2001, in the Romanian official documents the name “methodology” turned
into “didactics”. Unfortunately, this change didn’t
occur where curriculum was concerned. It remained a kind of pedagogy
applied to the subject matter. The same situation can be found with
regard to the topics required in different examinations for acquiring
superior levels if teaching.In this study we analyse the schedule
of Physics Didactics courses within the initial and continuous teacher
training in Romania. We also offer alternatives supporting the attempt
to draw up a unitary schedule of Physics didactics courses.
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